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themselves. In Tarjei Vesaas’ The Ice Palace, Siss experiences all of the above as she struggles to understand Unn’s loss. Guilt floods her senses, manifesting itself in a promise to think of Unn and only Unn always. Her promise isolates Siss from her friends and family as she forces herself to keep Unn alive in her memory. Siss so dutifully observes her promise that the thought of spending time with her friends as she used to terrifies her, and she envisions the ice palace, which she heavily…

Can you Freeze a strawberry whole?Reader Question: Can you freeze whole strawberries? Will they turn out mushy when defrosted? Answer: Absolutely! Freezing strawberries whole is my preferred method to freeze strawberries for smoothies. Summer strawberries are always sweeter than what you can get in winter. In the past, I've cut my strawberries in half or even smaller pieces before freezing. Save yourself a step. Cutting them up is unnecessary, just remove the hull (the green top). Keep reading…

the Period of snowball earth, the carbon dioxide which accumulated from global volcanic eruptions that was able to penetrate through the ice, which has little impact on the temperature. The large volume of carbon dioxide build over time would have easily led to the greenhouse effect, raising the temperature of the earth which became the main mechanism to melt the ice as temperature increased…

We walked home, with crinkly, thin, plastic bags in hand, chattering like the bird that my friends and I had discovered just a few hours before. He was so small, tiny enough I could carry him in the palm of our hands when we went from house, to house, in order to find a safe place to keep him. The soft feathers that covered the chick’s scrawny frame stuck out in a disorderly manner, especially the antenna of a feather on the top of his tiny head. Soft cream covered feathers, with lines of cocoa…

We all woke up at dawn and it was slightly miserable. Fifteen of us stayed in the craft shack until 3am the night before because the campers were officially gone and we knew that the next morning was our last. The melancholy air surrounded us until we arrived at breakfast to see a buffet of waffles, pancakes, eggs and all the other breakfast foods imaginable (including beans and toast for the all the unique british counselors). Together, we all sat and ate with cheer as we attempted to avoid…

Money: Cowsmoo Milk Bar wants to try and minimize start-up cost, in doing so our communication expense must be kept at a minimal. One of the reasons we want to do this is because consumers might already be familiar with most ice cream and dairy products around the surrounding community. Furthermore, another reason we want to keep our cost low is because the products we are selling will be at low cost to our customers. We don’t want to waste money trying to grab the consumers’ attention on…

Don’t you just love the warm chocolate taste of a freshly baked brownie? My brother and I, had a remarkable experience the first time we ever made brownies. It was an experience I will never forget. Not only was it a great bonding experience, I was also able to taste one of the most delicious snacks on earth! It was a rainy day in the middle of summer, when my brother came into my room, he asked “want to learn to make brownies? “Heck yea” I replied. This is where it all began the great brownie…

Ice Ice Baby goes Under Pressure Hip-Hop star Vanilla Ice came out with a new album called To the Extreme in the 1990’s. Their biggest hit was Ice Ice Baby. It also was known for copying the song Under Pressure by Queen and David Bowie. Vanilla Ice took samples of the song without having permission and changed up the baseline beat a little thinking he would not have to give credit to the song Under Pressure the original song writers Queen and David Bowie. . . . . . . . . The way Vanilla Ice…

Coffee Falls for Ice Cream Have you heard about the class-sleek new ice cream-coffee shop at downtown New Orleans? With this, it will definitely break your allowance to smithereens. Don’t fear, the bill is all worth it! Drip Affogato Bar focuses the deluxe artisanal affogato dessert. Originally an Italian dessert that is a coffee-based and usually form a scoop of gelato or ice cream, top with gourmet toppings and freshly brewed expresso which has been poured. Sounds pretty cool-icious isn’t? The…

Habilis, who lived from about 2.1 to 1.5 million years ago(2). By the peak of this duration the global temperatures on earth dropped by about 5oC, plunging the entire planet into an ice age, creating vast glaciers miles deep that expanded across limitless amounts of land, locking hordes of water into impenetrable sheets of ice. However, this gave a few species on earth a fierce advantage, for the glaciers had taken so much water from the oceans that it managed to drive the sea level 450 feet…